Columbia Journal

03/20/2023

Hope we get the message on time.

Remembering Chuck Berry who left us on this day in 2017 via this wonderful letter from Carl Sagan 🚀

03/06/2023

The Living Wage for Families Campaign raises awareness about the negative impact of low-wage poverty on families and communities throughout BC It also advocates for regional living wages that ensure basic living expenses.

10/21/2022

Damn that inflation!!

07/20/2022

Public support for unions is at a 50-year high. That is a big, big deal. Thank you to all of the workers across the country who are showing us why unions matter and what we can accomplish when we organize. Solidarity, always.

07/18/2022

....guidance through the darkness....

07/03/2022

06/28/2022

Big shoes to fill.......

Being the Premier of British Columbia is not a job I ever expected, but it’s been the honour of my life.

Having just beat a second round of cancer, I’ve made the tough call not to run in the next election.

By working together and caring for each other, we've accomplished a lot. Thank you.

06/25/2022

/ Hannah Arendt /

"Hannah Arendt was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. Her contributions influenced 20th and 21st century political theorists. Arendt was born in Linden, a district of Hanover, in 1906, to a Jewish family. At the age of three, her family moved to Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia, so that her father's syphilis could be treated. Paul Arendt had contracted the disease in his youth, and it was thought to be in remission when Arendt was born. He died when she was seven. Arendt was raised in a politically progressive, secular family. Her mother was an ardent supporter of the Social Democrats. After completing her secondary education in Berlin, she studied at the University of Marburg under Martin Heidegger, with whom she had a brief affair. She obtained her doctorate in philosophy writing on Love and Saint Augustine at the University of Heidelberg in 1929 under the direction of the existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers."
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Born: Johanna Arendt, October 14, 1906, Linden, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died: December 4, 1975, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Resting place: Bard College, New York, U.S.
Other names: Hannah Arendt Bluecher
Citizenship: German (1906–37), Stateless (1937–50), United States (from 1950)
"Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism", www.openculture.com. January 24, 2017.

06/19/2022

02/19/2022

My interview with powerful young people leading the charge to unionize Starbucks -- and hopefully other food service workers

02/17/2022

Canada's care systems are in crisis. We need investments in early learning and child care workers now. Join the fight to build a better Future of Care

02/08/2022

Teamsters Canada is proud to represent over 55,000 professional drivers from diverse industries across the country, approximately 15,000 of which are long haul truck drivers, 90% of whom are vaccinated...

01/03/2022

Truth in the spoken word.

Hello Darlings, It’s been a long time. I’ve had a pretty demoralizing few years living in isolation. There’s been a lot of hope and disappointment. A ...

12/22/2021

Sometimes solidarity looks like signing a union card. Or walking a picket line in bitter cold. Or standing up against unfair treatment or a dangerous workplace.

And then sometimes it looks like this: hundreds of bags of food and gifts, assembled with care by labour movement volunteers for needy families.

We'll be distributing them tomorrow evening at our annual Labour Christmas Dinner, at the Maritime Labour Centre from 5 to 8 pm. It's not too late to volunteer — drop us a message. Details at https://bcfed.ca/events/25th-annual-labour-christmas-dinner-vancouver.

(Photo: Joshua Berson)

12/22/2021

HEY -- It is the Solstice WHEREVER you are.*
Meme is corrected for Northern Bias but still not great if you are color-blind...

*Unless you are in outer space... and if you are actually in outer space, I hope you are having fun without the weight of our world! - Happy Solstice on a Mapping Monday from dr k

09/20/2021

As cities around the world grapple with a crisis of affordable housing, Vienna has been keeping it at bay. How the Austrian capital got there may offer a mod...

09/09/2021

Festival concert by Accordion Noir Radio's 14th Annual
ACCORDION NOIR FEST this weekend at central MacLean Park- Saturday September 11th, 2021 from 2PM-5PM...hosted by Rowan Lipkovits! ...by donation! https://www.facebook.com/events/952105462039966
videostream will happen on Nov 13th.

09/08/2021

See if this works.

The BC Vaccine Card is a necessary tool to help keep social and recreational events safe and get BC’s economy running. Getting vaccinated means we can keep bringing people back together and do more, safely, with confidence.

Go to gov.bc.ca/vaccinecard to get your digital or paper card.

09/06/2021

Long- term care standards now

08/20/2021

Protect BC Students. Schools need stronger COVID19 safety measures.. 940 signatures are still needed!

08/17/2021

Women's labour force participation is at its lowest point in 30 years. We are at risk of moving backwards if we don't focus on women's participation in the workforce, starting with investments in the care economy
https://canadianplan.ca/care-economy/

08/15/2021

07/26/2021

It ain't over by a long shot.

The biological mechanisms of the Delta variant now coursing through the U.S. makes it 'the fastest and fittest' of them all so far. As with other variants before it, the best recourse is vaccination.

07/11/2021

Research, anyone?

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